Riddle twenty-two
Riddle twenty-two: Looks Like Another Lesson in Zoology
Difficulty: 9
Interest: 7
Practice your 1337-speak. The title implies that the answer refers to zoology. The image also contains a shirt with a logo referring to the answer.
Words in the image can be upside-down, and they can also be mirrored. Most of these words refer to a recent military conflict. Ignore them. Some other words, however, have more of a lexical link between them. Find out what that link is.
The text implies that you should look for the last word of that family as an answer. This is slightly misleading though. There are many words missing from that family, but only a few of them concern zoology, and only one fits with both zoology and the image on the shirt. Find that word.
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*Spoilers*
Difficulty: 9
Interest: 7
Practice your 1337-speak. The title implies that the answer refers to zoology. The image also contains a shirt with a logo referring to the answer.
Words in the image can be upside-down, and they can also be mirrored. Most of these words refer to a recent military conflict. Ignore them. Some other words, however, have more of a lexical link between them. Find out what that link is.
The text implies that you should look for the last word of that family as an answer. This is slightly misleading though. There are many words missing from that family, but only a few of them concern zoology, and only one fits with both zoology and the image on the shirt. Find that word.
Next Level
*Spoilers*
The lexical link is the ending of these words. Find discussions about these rare words, and you should soon find a more accurate list, which contains the answer. This one can be tricky, as there are many lists *without* the answer.
posted by Hexedian at 8:22 PM
9 Comments:
I don't get it. The recent activity is the war. the lexical link is the words ending in 'ous'. What family are you talking about? To me it seems the image is that of a fish. Am I wrong? How do these all link up?
You are on the right way. However, aside from one word, the lexical link is stronger than that.
There are actually many missing brothers. Find the one that fits with the title, and to a lesser extent, the image.
You might have to find another list of words in that family. Most of them won't show the answer.
From the net:
"At least 32 additional dous words repose in various dictionaries: apodous, antropodous, blizzardous, cogitabundous, decapodous, frondous, gastropodous, heteropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, lagopodous, lignipodous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, repandous, rhodous, sauropodous, staganopodous, tetrapodous, thamphipodous, tylopodous, vanadous and voudous."
Note the absence of the answer in there. I say this riddle is riddled with holes. Thank god for Google site search which provided me with this most obscure answer.
riddled with holes? it says zoology, which clearly defines what word it should be.
I found a site that listed one word "apodous", and the definition for that referenced "apodal" which was marked as Zoology by the dictionary, but neither of those words were the answer.
Time to start looking at the even bigger list of words listed by anonymous.
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I'm lost beyond all possible beleif. what on earth is the answer to this one?
i found the answer at askoxford.com. Go there and look for "dous" words.
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